50% Chance of Deal in December, Brexit Secretary Davis Tells Business Leaders

May and Davis met European business leaders in Downing Street
Business groups resist efforts to get them to lobby for U.K.

Vasileios Gkionakis, global head of strategy research at UniCredit, discusses the prospects of a Brexit deal.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By John Follain, Emma Ross-Thomas, and Dara Doyle

November 13, 2017 at 6:05 PM UTC

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November 14, 2017 at 3:38 PM UTC

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Brexit Secretary David Davis reckons it’s as close as 50-50 whether he gets a breakthrough in divorce talks by December, according to European business leaders he briefed at a meeting Monday.